rec.autos.simulators

Hi everyone    

Can anyone tell me if the 'new' Diamond 3D videocard is really fast with
GP2?
I want to buy it but I need to know if it's worth it?

Thanks in advance,

Henk Emmelot

Hce's Grand Prix II Homepage
http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Henk

I've just upgraded my P133 machine to 32 meg, and installed the Diamond
Stealth 3D 2000, in the hope that I could run GP2 (and other games),
faster than the computer recommended 16.0 fps.

Unfortunatly it has made no differance that I can discern to the speed or
frame rate. The computer still recommends 16.0 fps, and when 'i've
increased this to 23+ the picture does seem slower.

On the positive side, the colours are more vivid, and I can now run my PC
in 24-bit true colour, and other 3D graphical games (Quake, TV, C&C, etc),
look and play a little better.

If anyone know how I can get my fps to increase, I would be very grateful.

Hope I've been some use.

Steve

Clas (Team Toyota Norway)
http://netpower.no/~clas/TeamToyo.htm

The first thing to do it make sure that there is heat sink grease between
the fan and cpu.

If your motherboard supports multiple voltage settings you could also
try raising the voltage a step.  I don't whether this will help if your
problem is heat related - it may make the problem worse.

I assume you already tried adjusting the BIOS less aggressive settings.
This is the surest way to make overclocking work but you lose some of the
performance increase.

BTW, I've got a cyrix p150+ overclocked to 166+ that has worked perfectly
for over a month.

--
Pat Dotson

Bye
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         .Renzo Olivieri.

Mike

wrote

Hmmm... I have a card based on the S3 Trio 64V+ with 1Mb of DRAM, and
using S3SPDUP, I get a video speed of 157. This seems ridiculously low
when compared with some of your times above; so what am I doing wrong
(apart from having only 1Mb)? Will getting another 1Mb do any good, or
should I move up to a better card?
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On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:30:48 +0100, David Keaveny

Tony

That is way to low if youre using a Trio64v+. Getting another meg
should indeed help you, it seems most OEM versions of the Trio64v+
only work at full speed with 2 meg. This does not happen with the
Diamond version, but you pay for that... I know of people that get
(with 33mhz PCI bus) 4xx with trio64v+'s...

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Things to consider:

1. Slow processor. What kind of machine do you use?
2. Too little video memory.
3. I also use S3VBE20 by D. Meschede. Maybe this influences speed a
   little.
4. Do you have a PCI bus and card? What's the bus speed? On some older
   P75 systems, the bus runs at a mere 25 MHz (as opposed to 33MHz on
   a current P100/P133/P166.)

From what I've read so far, cards with S3 Trio chipsets give very
handsome results with GP2. They definitely are a good budget decision
if you don't have a lot of spare money to shell out for a Matrox
(which is not much faster in GP2). I'd suggest you try upgrading to
2MB first, especially since this is a bad time for buying an expensive
video card, with the next generation of 3D cards to come out next
year.

HTH

--

               "per aspera ad absurdum"

Preiss) mumbled:

vidspeed = 171
with my brand new Pentium 133:
vidspeed = 496  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Both using S3SPDUP.

Brian

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   Still waiting for the day that GP2 runs on my computer in
      SVGA with >25.6fps and with al the details on.....

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